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email: bwsnyder2000@yahoo.com
Nationality: USA
Experience:
09/2003 to present Omaisa.com - Owner, Editor. Develop information and articles regarding global issues such as peace, education, environmental protection, and more.
01/2006 to 01/2007 EZI English Academy - Jangyu, Gimhae, South Korea. Head Foreign English Teacher: Teaching TOEFL test preparation and general English to middle school students: 300 Students, aged 10 - 16 years.
09/2004 to 06/2005 Shanghai JiaoDa NanYang Affiliated School - Lujia Town, Kunshan City, China. English Teacher: Teaching English conversation to middle school and high school classes, and private lessons to Korean students at this boarding school: 350 Students,aged 13 - 19 years.
01/01 to 01/2004: Sesame Street Educational Organization [VIP Cultural Org. Ltd.] Tainan city, Taiwan. English Teacher: Teaching English as a second language to students age three to adult, in various Sesame Street schools.
12/96 to 12/00: Jacques DuBois Co., Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. Michigan Sales Representative: Manufactured and sold convenience store products, performed telemarketing and cold-calls. Developed a new route sales clientele of approximately 500 retailers since spring of 1999. Began in 1988 as intern: became an independent rep. in 1999.
Education:
Summer 2004: TEFL International, Phuket, Thailand (Prathet Thai). TESOL certification.
Spring 1990: Japan Horizon, Sakaide, Japan. International Work-Study. Trained in Japanese language, culture, and business, and worked in a cafe.
Spring 1989: University of Michigan. BA. Honors: 1988-'89. Studied psychology and economics. Membership Chairman and Vice President: Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. 3.4 grade point average.
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email: bwsnyder2000@yahoo.com
Nationality: USA
Experience:
09/2003 to present Omaisa.com - Owner, Editor. Began this educational website while living in Taiwan. Develop information and articles regarding global issues including peace, education, environmental protection, and more. Visited schools in developing Asian nations, promoting the global flag, English education, and United Nations improvement, among other issues.
09/2007 to 01/2008 Clean Water Action - Began as a fundraiser for Michigan's largest environmental lobbying organization, but did not meet the fund-raising goal. Then volunteered to assist members to contact their state senators regarding legislation to protect the Great Lakes waters.
05/2007 to 08/2007 WWOOF, Japan - Worked as volunteer laborer with organic farmers in Nagano and Japanese Alps area. Also was a camp counselor with the International Survival Camp, at Free Kids Village, Japan.
01/2006 to 01/2007 EZI English Academy - Jangyu, Gimhae, South Korea. Head Foreign English Teacher: Teaching TOEFL test preparation and general English to middle school students. Taught more than 220 Students, aged 10 - 16 years.
09/2004 to 06/2005 Shanghai JiaoTong NanYang Affiliated Kunshan School - Lujia, China. English Teacher: Teaching English conversation to middle school and high school classes, and private lessons to Korean students at this boarding school. Students ages: 13 - 19 years.
01/01 to 01/2004: Sesame Street Educational Organization [VIP Cultural Org. Ltd.],
Tainan, Taiwan. English Teacher: Teaching English as a second language to students age three to adult, in various Sesame Street schools. Also instructed other teachers and school staff.
12/96 to 12/2000: Jacques DuBois Co., Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. Michigan Sales Representative:
Manufactured and sold convenience store products, performed telemarketing, delivery and outside cold-calls. Developed new Southeast Michigan routes of approximately 500 retailers from spring of 1999 to 2000. Began in 1988 as intern.
Education:
Summer 2004: TEFL International, Phuket, Prathet Thai (Thailand). TESOL certification.
Spring 1990: Japan Horizon, Sakaide, Japan. International Work-Study.
Trained in Japanese language, culture, and business, and worked in a cafe.
Spring 1989: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Bachelor degree.
Honors: 1988-'89. Studied psychology and economics. Membership Chairman and Vice President: Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. 3.4 grade point average.
Personal: Certified in Home Inspection. Former MENSA member. Enjoy fitness, travel, and food.
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PROFESSIONAL/PERSONAL REFERENCES
Ann Wards, General Manager
EZI English Academy, 3FL301 Neo City Building, Sammun, Jangyu, Gimhae South Korea Tel: 082(0) 55-313-9996 cell: (0)19-265-7362
Jean, Managing Director
Sesame Street Schools, Tainan, Taiwan
Head office: No 518, Tung Ning Rd, Tainan, Taiwan
Tel: 886-6-2368086 ex17 Fax: 886-6-2748427
E-mail:Jean@abc-school.com.tw
Http://www.abc-school.com.tw
Teacher Shi JuanPing (Sally), Senior 2 Head Teacher
Shanghai JiaoTong Nanyang Affiliated School
(Lujia Town, Kunshan City), Jiangsu, China
(86) 512-5787-1863 or (86) 512-5787-1843 / (86) 512-5787-1858
www.ksjdny.com.cn
Mr. Marc Sherrod, Manager
The Art Institute of Michigan - Novi
Mr. Edward Pocock, Vice President
Hobbs & Black Arcitects
100 North State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA
(248) 988-8978 home
734.663.4189 work phone
epocock@hobbs-black.com
www.hobbs-black.com
Mr. Cyrus Yoakam, Editor
Urban Quality Communications
1756 Plymouth Road, #239
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
(734) 996-8610
cyoakam1@comcast.net
Educational References
TESOL Certification
TEFL International 367/11-12 Yaowarat Road, Phuket Town, Phuket 83000, Thailand
e-mail: info@teflcourse.net
Phone: (+66 76 236306), Fax: (+66 76 236306) ...
www.teflcourse.net
BA, University of Michigan
Transcript and Certification Department
Office of the Registrar
LS&A Building
500 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382 USA
Phone: 734.763.9066
Fax: 734.764.5556
http://www.umich.edu/~regoff/
Hawaii ESL teaching
www.eslgold.com
/hawaii.html
Hawaii MA in TESOL
U. of Hawaii at Manoa
UN University: Phd in Peace Studies.
ESLCafe
Peace Jobs
conflicttransformation.org
TeacherBrook Passwork
My website is Omaisa.com. I live overseas and have taught children in China, Korea, Thailand, Laos and Taiwan, and have visited schools in Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, and more. One thing I found is that most students in these countries work harder physically than we do.
The students, more than a billion of them, often ride bike or walk to school, clean their own schools, have mandatory fitness drills daily, and they are more fit. Some private schools do not make the children clean, and students are less in shape. Putting activity back into schools is a must, for all ages. Better bodies also have better brains.
I see a reverse brain-drain - a fitness drain where people leave America in pursuit of active, beautiful life partners, because kids in the US watch tv, live a sedentary life at home and school, have little space to play outside, and eat improperly.
I am 38 years old, and despite having a special person in my hometown of Ann Arbor, MI, I didn't start a physical relationship or get married, because of this. I am repulsed by extra pounds - but attracted by the slender beauties I meet here overseas. (I wasn't the unfit one, I might add.)
We are so focussed and "America-centered" even in our media. Our culture rejects making children work physically in school. In other countries, tardy or misbehaving students have to do more cleaning and physical work -- good training for their probably future careers. Yet we put people in detention, where they sit and ponder the stillness, a good training for life behind bars.
America has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world -perhaps the highest. While that may make us safer and create a better economy, we could prevent some of the delinquency if young children learned important real-life lessons about bacteria, disease, and pests, and simple tasks such as cleaning and washing, building maintenance and similar tasks.
As teachers are surely overtasked, cleaning monitors are needed. These are older and better students who can instruct and report on the rest. We are not dead yet. We can still learn from other people's mistakes, or successes. Why don't we learn from our own in this case, and get our kids more active and life-educated?
Please see Omaisa.com for more information about my work.
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What would they do? They would allow each person's activities to be documented: we could know who was responsible for good, for bad. We could spot personality trends and stop the cat-molester or the drunk driver before they took their actions. Nobody would be lost in the shuffle of paperwork, or escaping overseas with stolen goods.
Also, they would bring all locations around the world into communication - allowing anyone to reach out and make friends, correct wrongs, see the conditions...
They would prevent overpopulation: bringing out notice of those who have too many children, who are unfit to feed or properly care for children, yet do it anyway.
They would point out that there is a totalitarianism of the majority: a tryranny that prevents peaceful, unique people from operating as they will without interference. This is social pressure: and perhaps we are the offendors.
For example, there is the idea that education brings us excellence in society, and school is mandatory: yet is it documented? Do people who go to school really act more justly? Or are people good or bad on their own, school or not? Must we expropriate to build nuclear power plants, highways, schools and more, and control to the extent we do? Cannot we return to a more natural existence, with less pollution and consumption? The decline of oil availability may cause this.
Perhaps we could have fewer children, accept fewer goods and have more grass, trees and clean air in our lives.